Wordpress, without the fat.
Preamble
You make web sites and you love Wordpress to the death. Someone (say, Joe) is asking you to do a web site of a few pages, and you want to use Wordpress so that Joe can maintain the web site by himself.
The problem is, Wordpress looks too complicated for Joe, and anyway, Joe wouldn’t need all the junk that Wordpress has to offer.
WPlite to the rescue
WPlite (”Wordpress lite”) is a Wordpress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the Wordpress administration menu—even the Dashboard. On top of that, you can also hide post meta controls on the Write page, so as to simplify the editing interface.
The result: a minimal, Zen-like Wordpress administration area.
Screenshots
Reviews
- WordPress-Plugin: WPlite
- Schlanker Admin-Bereich für WordPress
- Cafoutch de la semaine (”Très utile”)
- 管理画面の不要なメニューを非表示にできるプラグイン
- WP Lite - Administración Wordpress Zen
Thank you to all who used and reviewed my plugin.
Download (zipped PHP file)
1.1 - 29 March 2008 - 190 downloads
- BUG FIX: Submission of some forms resets the WPLite settings. (Thank you, OLDSKULL! Comment noted.)
- WARNING: This plugin has not been tested with Wordpress 2.5.
1.0 - 3 March 2008 - 245 downloads
- Initial release
Usage
- Ensure that you’re running the latest version of Wordpress 2.3. (Note: This plugin has not been tested on Wordpress 2.5 yet.)
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Configure the plugin at Options -> WPlite
This plugin is licensed under the GPL.
Bugs, suggestions, comments
Below.
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4 Comments
Seems nice, but it would be great, if I (admin) could define it as defaults for some some levels, and also that only admins could set this up
Thanks for the feedback, Tomas!
I’ll look into it.
I just downloaded wplite today and love it!
I, like the person who posted previously wanted to have the administrative section for all admin level users to still have all of the options but have all other users see only the options set in wplite. So, I did a quick little hack.
Within the following functions I added a check to make sure that the current user was not an admin.
wplite_disable_menus()
wplite_disable_metas()
remove_the_dashboard()
Here is the if statement I used:
“if(!current_user_can(’manage_options’))”
Here is an example of how I used it:
function remove_the_dashboard() {
if (!current_user_can(’manage_options’)) {
##ORIGINAL FUNCTION CODE##
}
}
Hope this helps. Thanks again for the plugin. It’s just what I need!
I’m glad you found the plugin useful :)
Thanks for sharing your hack!